Human rights organisation Amnesty International has called on Iran to release information about the status of hundreds of individuals that are being held by the Iranian regime. These individuals are part of the Ahvazi Arab ethnic minority and have been denied access to lawyers. They have also been unable to contact their families.

Human rights violations in Iran are commonplace and October was no exception. This article will cover the gruesome nature of human rights abuses in Iran throughout October, including executions, corporal punishment, and persecution of religious minorities, but this is only an overview. (For a more detailed report, click here.)

Iran Human Rights Monitor has produced an in-depth report about the ghastly conditions of the notorious Evin prison in Tehran, where over 15,000 people are currently detained, including many peaceful activists, journalists, intellectuals and human rights lawyers.

Javid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, presented his report to a UN panel in New York on Wednesday, with the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union in attendance, criticizing the increase in executions and suppressions inside Iran.